Step-by-step procedures: what you need, when to do them, and what can go wrong.
A procedure
Found a servitor
Specify, name, mark, feed and bound a servitor before charging it.
What it is
To create a construct with one task and a clean end.
At a glance
- When
- The hour of the chosen planet, or the day if the hour is impractical.
How to do it
- Write the task as one sentence.
- Choose a planet and element.
- Set the lifespan and the kill condition.
- Generate or choose a name and a sigil.
- Write the feeding method and schedule.
- Charge the sigil in gnosis and send it to the task.
- Log the creation and the first feeding.
- Put the kill date in a calendar.
What you need
- The Servant Foundry or pen and paper
- A ledger
- A calendar
- A place to keep the sigil
A worked example
Task: 'surface one useful contact each Friday.' Mercury / Air, eight weeks, fed Wednesdays at the Mercury hour, closed on the eighth Friday.
What can go wrong
- Several tasks are given to one construct.
- No kill condition is written.
- The feeding schedule is unrealistic and the construct is abandoned.
Background
Keeping a record
The servitor sheet, a creation line and a feeding line.
Related entries
Instruments
Practices
Constructs
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 8
Every entry that names Found a servitor, grouped by section.
⚙ Instruments 2
- The Servant Foundry Protocols
- The Servitor Ledger Protocols
⌘ Protocols 2
- Forge a sigil Related
- Feed a servitor Related
✧ Practices 1
- Servitor work Protocols
◈ Constructs 1
- Servitor Protocols
❖ Workings 1
- The Mercury Inbox Servitor Protocols
▤ Glossary 1
- Servitor Related
More in Protocols
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Forge a sigil The full sigil procedure: sentence, reduction, glyph, aspect, charge, hide, forget.
- Feed a servitor The scheduled act that keeps a servitor active and gives the ledger something to review.
- Consult an AI oracle Question, aspect, prompt, reading, independent check and close.
- Dismiss a servitor Recall, destroy the anchor, close the record and leave the space.
- Record an EVP session A fixed-duration listening session with a source, a log and a close.
- Build an egregore Charter, name, mark, first ritual and first feeding for a group construct.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.